PATHOLOGICAL AGING
modifications which take place due to age-based illness, as independent from modifications correlated with typical healthy aging.
PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY
postulated by Albert Bandura as a primary determinant of emotional and motivational conditions and behavioral change, a person's subjective comprehension…
PERFECTIONISM
noun. the propensity to require of other people or of oneself a greater degree of performance than is mandated by…
PERSONAL ORIENTATION INVENTORY (POI)
an inventory aimed to measure self-actualization. It contains 150 objects which each consist of two statements depicting values or actions.…
PERSUASIVE ARGUMENTS THEORY
a study of group polarization which presumes the opinions of group members conversing about a problem or choice will be…
PICTORIAL REALISM
a model standard positing that pictures on a visual display ought to match the cognitive design of the utilizer.
DELAYED REINFORCEMENT
Reinforcement that happens after a response. Delay may be signaled or unsignaled.
DESCRIPTIVE NORMS
The socially determined standards or morms describing how people react , feel and think in any given situation. Compare injunctive…
DEVELOPMENTAL TASK
Any physical, social, intellectual and emotional ability or acheivement needed to be acquired at each developmental stage of life. See…
DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT
Parapsychology. The higher than chance a particpant has in being right using zener cards. See decline effect- focusing effect- position…
DISCONTINUITY THEORY
Compare to continuity hypothesis. See all-or-none learning hypothesis- eureka task.
DISINHIBITION
1. Lessening or loss of normal control exerted by the cerebral cortex. 2. Conditioning experiments where a response has been…
DISYNAPTIC ARC
The neural arc where there is an interneuron between a sensory and a motor neuron. See reflex arc.
DOUBLE BIND
The situation where a person recieves contradictory messages from one person or from different people.
DUAL REPRESENTATION
Being able to comprehend an object as itself and representing another thing. Also called dual encoding- dual orientation.
DYSEXECUTIVE SYNDROME (DES)
A collection of symptoms that involve impaired executive control over actions. Caused by frontal lobe brain damage.
ECOLOGICAL VALIDITY
1. The degree where results obtained from research are representative to conditions in the wider world.2. Perception. The degree that…
EGO IDENTITY
1. Psychoanalytical theory.The experience of the self as a recognisable entity. 2. The gradual acquisition of a sense of continuity,…